Word: ukrspetsexport
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Jordanian middleman. The purported sale - a deal that Ukrainian officials deny ever took place - has led to a serious diplomatic dispute between Ukraine and the U.S. The fbi says the July 2000 tape of Kuchma in conversation with Valeriy Malev, then head of Ukraine's state arms-sales firm, Ukrspetsexport, is authentic - a finding that led to the suspension last September of $55 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine. Denying the alleged sale, Viktor Medvedchuk, Kuchma's Chief of Staff, told a press briefing last month: "This is absolutely ruled out. The President of Ukraine could not approve such supplies...
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